GameFront - Why I'm Not Okay with the Penny Arcade Kickstarter.But Penny Arcade doesn't need money from Kickstarter, or to crowdsource new projects. It simply would prefer to remove ads from its site for one year, at the cost of a huge amount of money. But itís choosing to gather that money not through usual business channels, but through Kickstarter ó and in a way, itís taking advantage of the Kickstarter culture and drawing away users who would potentially give funds to more needy projects.

A while back I wrote a post about quitting SW:TOR and how disappointed I was with some aspects of the game. I donít mind telling you that because of that post I was not able to do a Star Wars PA Presents project weíd been talking with them about doing. If you know me you know that the idea of getting to draw official SW stuff was incredibly exciting. I knew that when I posted that article I was throwing that project in the garbage. I donít want to ever have to think about hurting our relationship with a publisher or making our ad guyís jobs any harder.

That's what I mean by it being more about the influence of ads than just removing the visual disturbance of the ads themselves.